HELLISH SCENE OF ATOMIC AGE

By

Muhammad Yousaf Gabriel

Oqasaorg@gmail.com

            Mankind today may be seen to have been encompassed by the atomic fire, and they now find no way out of the trap despite their endeavour to get out of it and despite their full knowledge of the dire hazards that are incident on the adoption of the atomic energy. Like the lazy octopus the atomic energy has caught them in its feelers. But what is the atomic energy today? But a few reactors operating in the entire world. It is just a few fires blazing on earth at very great distances from each other. The generality of mankind even have not heard the name of reactor or reprocessing plant, but what a day when this earth will be bestrewn with reactors, old, outmoded, condemned and condemnable being augmented by new entrants every day. It is horrible to know that then every power-house, factory, ship, submarine, engine, aeroplane, bus, even the private car will have its own and independent reactor. The exploding reactors will create a scene of bonefire over the earth, the radiations piercing through the bodies like rays, though invisible and undetectable. This earth will then be like a huge ball encompassed by the radiation bonefire, and it will be like a huge asylum of diseases, miseries, afflictions, sorrows, sufferings. Such will be the state of sufferings, that men will forget the sense of suffering. That will be the real atomic hell. The scientists of today are in dire need of a powerful imagination which in these present days of little atomic energy can bring to one's view the state of those times when the atomic energy will be in its fufledged state in the world, a world of cancer-ridden chimeras.